Henry P. McKean, Jr. (born 1930 in

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) is an American mathematician at the Courant Institute in

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. He works in various areas of

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. He obtained his

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in 1955 from

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under

William Feller William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Early life and education Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croa ...

. He was elected to the

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in 1980. In 2007 he was awarded the

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for his life's work. In 1978 he was an invited speaker at the

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(''Algebraic curves of infinite genus arising in the theory of nonlinear waves''). In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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. His doctoral students include Michael Arbib,

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, Harry Dym,

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Victor Moll Victor Hugo Moll (born 1956) is a Chilean American mathematician specializing in calculus. Moll studied at the Universidad Santa Maria and at the New York University with a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in 1984 with Henry P. McKean ( ...

and

Pierre van Moerbeke Pierre van Moerbeke (born 1 October 1944 in Leuven, Belgium) is a Belgian mathematician. He studied mathematics at the Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968), Catholic University of Leuven, where he received his degree in 1966. He then obtai ...

and Uri Keich.

Works

Selected articles

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Books

*with

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: ''Diffusion processes and their sample paths.'' Springer 1965. *''Stochastic Integrals.'' New York 1969. *with Harry Dym: ''Fourier series and integrals.'' New York 1972. *with Harry Dym: ''Gaussian processes, function theory and the inverse spectral problem'', Academic Press 1976 *with

: ''Elliptic Curves.'' Cambridge 1997. *Probability: The Classical Limit Theorems, Cambridge University Press, 2014

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